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DevOps
You Have Monitoring—Do You Also Need Observability?
Monitoring and observability can in some ways be compared to virtual machines (VMs) and containers: they share much in common, but have important differences that are important to understand. In the case of VMs and containers, they’re both methods of abstraction that allow portability of applic… Read More
By Keith Ward -
DevOps
‘VMware Edge’ Promises To Bring Order to Distributed Chaos
VMware looks at the IT infrastructure world and sees disorder everywhere. And “VMware Edge,” a product suite announced at VMworld 2021, aims to bring order to the increasing state of disorder. Sanjay Uppal, VMware SVP & GM for the Service Provider & Edge Business Unit, put the problem in star… Read More
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DevOps
Portworx Provides Software-Defined Storage for Kubernetes
Remember when storage was simple? It was in a single location, and was physical, either inside a server or as a separate device like a SAN or NAS. Map the device to the storage and off you went. And that location didn’t vary: the same storage was in the same place. It had its challenges, of cou… Read More
By Keith Ward -
DevOps
Infrastructure-as-Code Made Easy with env0
Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC): it’s one of those phrases many in IT are aware of, but few actually understand at a deep level. In (very) brief, IaC is a way to deploy and manage cloud infrastructure in an automated fashion. Why is that important? Because cloud development and deployment can be v… Read More
By Keith Ward -
DevOps
099 — Cloud-Native Application Observability with Chronosphere
We are now in the era of cloud-native application development. And while this new paradigm has incredible benefits in terms of time to market, efficiency, and more, it ramps up the complexity factor significantly. With dozens, hundreds, or thousands of microservices comprising an application, obs… Read More
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DevOps
Beef Up Your Cloud Security with Solvo
“By 2023, 75% of security failures will result from inadequate management of identities, access, and privileges, up from 50% in 2020.” This statistic, from Gartner, should be a warning to organizations about upcoming security threats. Getting out ahead of that looming danger is what Solvo is… Read More
By Keith Ward -
DevOps
Render Wants To ‘Make DevOps Go Away’
When Anurag Goel, CEO of Render, says that his company’s goal is to “make DevOps go away,” what does he mean? As he tells ActualTech Media Partner James Green in this Spotlight Series video chat, he means that there should be as little friction as possible between the developer and the depl… Read More
By Keith Ward -
DevOps
Weaveworks and the Concept of ‘GitOps’
If you spend any time in IT, you’ve heard of DevOps. You’ve probably also heard other “Ops” variations, including DataOps, SecOps, and DevSecOps. Well, here’s one you likely haven’t come across, but one that will become more and more important going forward: GitOps. GitOps was coined… Read More
By Keith Ward -
DevOps
Broadcom Releases New AIOps Platform with Enhanced Functionality
The IT space is fully ensconced in the era of xOps. This is the idea that to gain the most efficient and best-running environment, formerly disparate IT teams like virtualization admins, network admins, developers, DBAs, and so on need to break down the walls separating their disciplines. Going full… Read More
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DevOps
How Containers Enable Cloud-Native Development
In a fast-paced world where users expect software to work quickly and respond promptly to changes, containers are vital. Containers are part of the technologies in cloud-native development. They support faster software design and better operations by compartmentalizing software units. A container… Read More
By Kris Flores -
DevOps
Climb Aboard the Client-Serverless Train with Fauna
I write novels as a hobby (I jokingly call it my “non-profit corporation”), and there’s an old saying among fiction writers: Don’t be afraid to kill your darlings. That means, in essence, that if you love a particular character or element in your book, but it doesn’t make your book better… Read More
By Keith Ward -
DevOps
Couchbase Virtual Event Runs from Oct. 14-16
Among the things the unprecedented year of 2020 will be remembered for, at least in the IT industry, is virtual conferences. Unable to meet face-to-face with their customers and potential customers, companies have done the next best thing and held online shows with many of the same features, includi… Read More
By Keith Ward -
DevOps
Why Companies Succeed—and Fail—with Containers
Although containers (the virtual kind) have been around awhile, it still feels like they’re brand new. Contrast that with virtual machines, which have been in common usage for 15 years now. Will containers one day seem as mainstream as virtual machines? It’s hard to say, but there’s certain… Read More
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DevOps
Good DevOps, Part 3: Continuous Delivery and Deployment
In the second blog in this series on DevOps, you’ve learned what continuous integration (CI) is and how it benefits an organization. The ability to commit code and have it built in a centralized location that all developers are committing to is the key to getting the code ready to use. But CI i… Read More
By Adam Bertram -
DevOps
Good DevOps, Part 2: Continuous Integration
So you’ve got all of your code stored in GitHub or some other source control system. That’s a great first step! But now you have another problem: you and your team have to remember to kick off some other routines once new code is checked in. You may have to run tests on that code and launch a bu… Read More
By Adam Bertram -
DevOps
Good DevOps, Part 1: Take Your Time
Continuously delivering value to end users, the business, and the rest of the teams inside an organization has always been crucial. But why are we hearing about it so much now? What is this whole DevOps thing, and why put “continuous” in front of so many words? DevOps, and its set of continuo… Read More
By Adam Bertram